About

Too much tv

Watching television is an experience shared by most people. It is cheap, appealing, and within the reach of almost everyone. In this way, TV has become an important mass media around the world. Sadly, this resource isn’t used in a way that people could get the best possible benefits from it. TV has also become one of the worlds most PREDOMINANT bad habits. The purpose of this essay is to persuade the reader that people shouldn’t watch too much TV because a lot of TV programs are not educational; it makes people waste time that could be used in more beneficial activities, and it negatively affects the STATUS of people’s brains.

The first reason why people shouldn’t watch too much television is because the content of many TV programs is not educational. Nowadays, we can see movies, series, and shows that present scenes of violence, sex, and drugs. This has established wrong concepts among the audience that influence them into having a negative behavior. Moreover, the impact this tendency has on children is worse because they grow up with the idea of a world where women must be slender and blonde to stand out, where problems can only be solved with money and violence, where wars are inevitable, and the fact that it is ok to AFFILIATE yourself with bad activities. This leads to children TRANSCENDING the DECORUM of the real world. You can solve this problem by not watching such programs and PROHIBITING children from from watching.

The second reason why people shouldn’t watch too much television is because it makes people waste time that could be used in more beneficial activities. The time we spend watching TV could be applied to useful activities like exercise, reading, FRATERNIZING with friends and family, activities that are a crucial for a healthy lifestyle.

The third reason why people shouldn’t watch too much television is because it negatively affects people’s mental development. According to several scientific studies, watching TV for long periods of time...

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

...cars. Some children might think that these things could happen to them at any time. Therefore, they can become frightened. In addition, some youngsters might begin to think that violence is a normal part of life because they see it so often on television. They may begin to act out the violence they see and hurt themselves or their playmates.
Second, television can affect children's reading ability. Reading requires skills and brain processes that watching television does not. If children watch television too many hours each day, they don't practice the skills they need to learn how to read.
Finally, television may affect children's schoolwork in other ways. If they spend toomuch time watching television, they may get behind in their homework. Also, if they stay up to watch a late movie, they may fall asleep in class the next day. Consequently, they will not learn their lessons, and they could even fail in school.
In conclusion, if children watch toomuch television or watch the wrong programs, their personalities can be harmed. Furthermore, their progress in school can be affected. Therefore, parents should know what programs their children are watching. They should also turn off the television so that their children will study.
Source: 0sluma and Hogue, "Introduction to Academic Writing", Ch.6...

...TV & Children:
Television, Health and Development
How does television affect the health of our children?
Children from birth to age five are actively growing, learning and developing habits that
will shape their physical and emotional health. Because this time period is so crucial to
the development of a child’s body and brain, any negative influences can have lifelong
health effects (1). Excessive television viewing among young children has been linked to
negative impacts on early brain development, and lifelong physical health (1, 2).
Television and early brain development
Repeated exposure to television or related activity can affect a child’s mental and
emotional development (1). TV often takes the place of interactive experiences
(e.g play) that promote healthy brain development (1, 2, 3, 4).
ToomuchTV during the early years has been linked to:
o Poor performance in school, especially in the areas of language and
reading. If TV is substituted for reading and talking with others at a
young age, children may have delayed language development (1, 2, 3, 5,
26).
o Being less able to use imagination. ToomuchTV can lead to an
overload on the visual part of the brain, while depriving other parts of the
brain. Areas of the brain responsible for creative thought and imagination
are under used...

...﻿English 100
11 August 2014
TooMuch T.V?
Television is good for a lot of things. It is a great place to watch the news and be kept up to date on what is going on in the world. It is also a great way to be entertained and have a laugh watching the new episode of “The Big Bang Theory.” In addition, it is great to watch your favorite team play and hangout with your friends while you have a barbeque. It is also a way to distract your children while you get some time for yourself to relax. However, it does not make you smarter. Watching something on a screen will not replace watching it in real life. The viewer will not get an education by watching shows like “The Sopranos” or “24”, just like it will not make them dumber by watching shows like “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” Finally, it will not replace the fact that watching everything on a screen is not real life. While one can learn a great deal about what is going on in the world by watching the news on CNN or FOX or CBS, it is still important to try to get that same education in other forms like the newspaper, or the Internet. Getting everything you want from just one source is never good, and it is just toomuch T.V.
I love watching television, and I watch it a lot, probably more than I should. I love watching shows or the basketball game and losing myself in the excitement of a program. In addition, I like watching the news to learn what is going on in the...

...﻿Internet and TV:
How much is toomuch for young children?
Na’Shaye Lewis
English 112
How muchTV and gaming, educational or not, is toomuch for young children? In the USA, 47% of children ages 2 to 18 years old have a television set in their bedrooms. On a typical day, they spend an average of 5.5 hours using media; including television, computer games, and the Internet. (Kaiser Family Foundation Newsletter, 2001) While there are a lot of different television and online educational sites that can be beneficial to a child’s education, parents should often monitor or regulate the amount of TV and Internet young children watch because it inhibits social development, shortens children’s attention span, and sometimes it is not always intellectually stimulating.
Social development can simply be explained as improving the well-being of an individual in society so they can reach their full potential. A society success is directly linked to the well-being of each individual citizen. With so many things on TV that can be negative there are so many shows and internet games that get your children up and physically active and wanting to learn. Shows such as Yo Gabba Gabba which teaches children how to eat healthy, get up and move around, how to help take care of the planet you live on and how to care about what...

...Television and cable and satellite are great inventions, but humans tend to misuse them. On TV, there is barely any restriction on what can be diffused. As a matter of fact, violence, crime and nudity are the most frequent themes shown on TV. An average American child will see 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on TV by age 18, said the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Children imitate the violence they see on TV. Children under age eight cannot tell the difference between reality and fantasy, making them more vulnerable to learning from and adopting as reality the violence they see on TV(American Academy of Pediatrics). Indeed these enormous amount of hours watching TV when at home leads to changes not only in eating habits and health, but also on one’s psychology and eventually the impact on the social life.
Watching toomuchTV can affect you eating habits. When kids get back from school, when parents get back from work, with their about just about to explode, they want to relax, so they sit back on the couch and open up the TV. Then they go grab something to eat and drink to increase the excitement of watching TV. My point is, when you are supposed to have lunch at a certain time in the day, with your family, and you have already eaten snacks before, you no longer have the appetite and you end up eating at...

...Is there toomuch reality TV?
On the other hand shows like big brother only occur for a certain part of the year, however when big brother is on it is on for a long time therefore it consumes a lot of TV airtime. Even so a lot of the British public enjoy big brother and text in there votes every week. It might also be argued that people only watch reality TV because there is nothing else on TV at these times.
On big brother alcohol is the most comely drunk beverage no one drinks water when there's a bottle of wine to be had this influence young adults with access to alcohol Each year, students spend £3 billion on alcohol that's a lot more than they spend on soft-drinks, tea, milk, juice, and coffee. How ever alcohol in reality TV shows some young adults that if they get drunk bad things can happen and people can't control them selves therefore it may put off some young adults from excessive drinking although youths may want to be like the new celebrities on the TV by drinking and copying there behaviour.
Violence is a big issue and not only in reality TV many children see a large quantity of people being murdered on TV, on the contrary murders only occur on reality TV which is fiction e.g. Recreations of past times like the wars. It might also be argued that violence on reality TV is only shown...

...﻿Watching TooMuch Television
Watching television is a very popular recreational activity in our days. When television was first brought to the public, it had an idea of entertaining education. However, throughout the decades TV has transformed from entertaining education to just entertainment. Today, TV has very few educational programs in comparison to the number of purely inane entertainment programs on the majority of channels. I’ve done own my research and found out that TV has several negative impacts on the development of young children. There are three major negative impacts: physiological ailments, psychological imbalance, and poor performance at school.
The first negative effect of watching a lot of TV is developing physiological illnesses such as poor eyesight, overweight, problems with spine, and etc. There are some basic rules for watching TV; for example, the TV set should be placed about 16 feet away from eyes, it should be on the same eye level, and the room should be adequately lit. Most people don’t know these rules. Also, according to article “Study: TV Lets Fast-Food Companies Hook Tots Early” by Carla K. Johnson, “Messages for high-fat, high-sugar foods permeate programming for preschoolers on Nickelodeon ”, which leads to buying more fast food and children gaining more weight. Also, advocates of this article say that...

...﻿EFFECTS OF WATCHING TOOMUCHTV
Humans welcome technological inventions and discoveries and the benefits they bring to people’s lives. This was the case when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays. Within five years, the British Army was using a mobile x-ray unit to locate bullets and shrapnel in wounded soldiers in the Sudan. TV was also invented with dreams of positive benefits for humanity – TV would make everyone global citizens. In addition, its global reach would provide providing educational and entertainment opportunities for all. However, there are also unforeseen consequences of technological inventions and not all are good. This essay looks at some of the negative physical and psychological consequences of excessive TV in people’s lives.
The most serious physical consequence of toomuchTV watching is obesity. A person who watches a lot of TV is about as active as a potato. Thus people who watch TV excessively are often referred to as ‘couch potatoes’. To add to this problem of inactivity while watching TV, many people consume lots of snacks in front of the TV. Here’s a common scenario: While Joe watches TV he does little besides using the remote control, but he might eat a bag of chips or cookies without being aware of his behavior. He consumes...